Editing DEF CON (section)

== Components ==

===Handles===
Attendees at DEF CON and other Hacker conferences often utilize an alias or "handle" at conferences. This is in keeping with the hacker community's desire for anonymity. Some known handles include DEF CON founder [[Jeff Moss (hacker)|Jeff Moss]]' handle of "[[Dark Tangent]]". A notable event at DEF CON is DEF CON 101 which starts off the conference and may offer the opportunity for an individual to come up on stage and be assigned a handle by a number of members of the community.

===Badges===
[[File:DefCon Badges.jpg|thumb|right|Multiple, electronic and non-electronic, DEF CON human badges along with other conference badges.]]A notable part of DEF CON is the conference badge, which identifies attendees and ensures attendees can access conference events and activities. The DEF CON badge has historically been notable because of its changing nature, sometimes being an electronic badge ([[Printed circuit board|PCB]]), with [[Light-emitting diode|LEDs]], or sometimes being a non-electronic badge such as a [[vinyl record]]. Conference badges often contain challenges or callbacks to hacker or other technology history, such as the usage of the [[Konami Code]] in the DEF CON 24 badge, or the DEF CON 25 badge reverting to the look of the DEF CON 1 badge. DEF CON Badges do not (generally) identify attendees by name; however, the badges are used to differentiate attendees from others. One way of doing this has been to have different badges, a general conference attendee (HUMAN) badge, a Staff member (GOON), Vendor, Speaker, Press, and other badges. In addition, individuals and organizations have begun creating their own badges in what has become known as badgelife. These badges may be purchased in many cases, or earned at the conference by completing challenges or events. Some badges may give the holder access to after hours events at the conference. In 2018, the evolution of this came with what was termed "shitty addon's" or SAOs. These were miniature (usually) PCBs that connected to the official and other badges that may extend functionality or were just collected.<ref>{{cite web |last=Oberhaus |first=Daniel |date=September 18, 2018 |title=A History of Badgelife, Def Con's Unlikely Obsession with Artistic Circuit Boards |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-history-of-badgelife-def-cons-unlikely-obsession-with-artistic-circuit-boards/ |access-date=January 14, 2019 |website=Vice Motherboard}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=McAllister |first=Neil |date=August 12, 2015 |title=Is this the most puzzling DEF CON attendee badge yet on record? |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/12/def_con_23_record_badge/ |access-date=January 14, 2019 |website=The Register UK}}</ref>

===Villages===
Villages are dedicated spaces arranged around a specific topic. Villages may be considered mini conferences within the con, with many holding their own independent talks as well as hands-on activities such as CTFs, or labs. Some villages include Aerospace Village, Car Hacking Village, IoT Village, Recon, [[Do-it-yourself biology|Biohacking]], [[Lock picking|lockpicking]], [[ham radio]], and the well known [[Social engineering (security)|Social Engineering]] and vote hacking villages. In 2018 the vote hacking village gained media attention due to concerns about US election systems security vulnerabilities.<ref>{{cite web |last=Molina |first=Brett |date=August 14, 2018 |title=11-year-old hacks replica of Florida state website, changes election results |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2018/08/13/11-year-old-hacks-replica-florida-election-site-changes-results/975121002/ |access-date=January 14, 2019 |website=USA Today}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://www.aerospacevillage.org/ |website=Aerospace Village}}</ref>

===Internal Conferences===
DEF CON has its own cultural underground which results in individuals wanting to create their own meetups or "cons" within DEF CON. These may be actual formal meetups or may be informal. Well known cons are:
* Queercon, a meetup of [[LGBT|LGBTQ]] community.
* Linecon, any long line has the potential to turn into a con.
* QuietCon, a meetup to hang out or talk quietly away from the hustle and bustle of the rest of the conference attendees.

===Workshops===
Workshops are dedicated classes on various topics related to [[information security]] and related topics. Historical workshops have been held on topics such as Digital Forensics investigation, hacking [[Internet of things|IoT]] devices, playing with [[RFID]], fuzzing and attacking smart devices.

=== Fundraising ===
Since DEF CON 11, fundraisers have been conducted for the [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]] (EFF). The first fundraiser was a [[dunk tank]] and was an "official" event. The EFF now has an event named "The Summit" hosted by the Vegas 2.0 crew that is an open event and fundraiser. DEF CON 18 (2010) hosted a new fundraiser called MohawkCon.